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Health Services: Weather

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to commence preparations for winter planning; and if he will make it his policy to prioritise funding for increased levels of care in the community in those plans.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 18 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 22 Jul 2024
Answer: 29 Jul 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to commence preparations for winter planning; and if he will make it his policy to prioritise funding for increased levels of care in the community in those plans.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jul 2024
Answer published
Guidance on winter planning for health and care services is expected to be issued by the summer recess, building on NHS England’s 2024/25 operational planning guidance published in April 2024.The Government has been clear that as part of the future reform...

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